Comments on: e2e threedux http://halr9000.com/article/129 (powershell & other stuff) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:56:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Trejkaz http://halr9000.com/article/129/comment-page-1#comment-96 Trejkaz Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:52:58 +0000 /?p=129#comment-96 Now now, let's not pretend people can't have two X509 certificates as well. :-) To be fair, SSL-style encryption and OpenPGP both suck for normal users. Normal users don't like OpenPGP because they have a feeling it's geeky, and they don't like SSL because the process of getting a key is way too advanced for a mortal (as opposed to OpenPGP, which is relatively easy in this respect.) I get the feeling that the only encryption that will ever "work" for IM on a grand scale would be something like Off-The-Record. Just reformulated in XMPP, instead of being a shitty plaintext hack. Now now, let’s not pretend people can’t have two X509 certificates as well. :-)

To be fair, SSL-style encryption and OpenPGP both suck for normal users. Normal users don’t like OpenPGP because they have a feeling it’s geeky, and they don’t like SSL because the process of getting a key is way too advanced for a mortal (as opposed to OpenPGP, which is relatively easy in this respect.)

I get the feeling that the only encryption that will ever “work” for IM on a grand scale would be something like Off-The-Record. Just reformulated in XMPP, instead of being a shitty plaintext hack.

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